I've noticed that, on most any flavour of GNU/Linux [RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, WinLinux], the loading of the sb module with the correct parameters for your sound card enables sounds perfectly. Of course, your sound card must be touted as "SoundBlaster Compatible", which most cards are, these days. At least, this worked for me in Redhat 6.2, Slackware 7.1, Potato, Mandrake 7.2 and WinLinux 2000. Does this also work on other flavours/versions?
- Shrikant
--- "N. Shrikant" ShrikantN@gmx.net wrote:
I've noticed that, on most any flavour of GNU/Linux [RedHat, Slackware, Debian, Mandrake, WinLinux], the loading of the sb module with the correct parameters for your sound card enables sounds perfectly. Of course, your sound card must be touted as "SoundBlaster Compatible", which most cards are, these days.
I beg to differ ... "SoundBlaster Compatible" is a thing of the past. Ever take a look at /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/ ?
At least, this worked for me in Redhat 6.2, Slackware 7.1, Potato, Mandrake 7.2 and WinLinux 2000. Does this also work on other flavours/versions?
Sound modules have nothing to do with the distro ... they are part of the kernel itself. What differs is the way the installation scripts of the distro manage to configure the module - but even that is not a problem if you compile your own kernel anyway ...
SameerDS.
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